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current state of India’s governance, the connection between policy making and its results in society becomes a key issue for … research. This paper presents a game for use as a research instrument. The game can facilitate research into the policy making …
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This article examines the role that civic agriculture in Georgia (US) plays in shaping attitudes, strategies, and relationships that foster both sustainability and adaptation to a changing climate. Civic agriculture is a social movement that attracts a specific type of “activist” farmer, who...
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This research evaluates the value of volunteer tourism as it has been applied in the Carolinas through the organization Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF-USA). Its recent growth is attributable to the rise of both the sustainable foods movement and volunteer tourism. Focusing on...
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pose a challenge to capital accumulation and the externalization of environmental costs by large agribusiness, trading and … fair trade—focusing on corporate involvement in establishing and renegotiating the standards undergirding these initiatives …. We compare the development of and contestation over the standards for both certified organic and certified fair trade …
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standards and certification, to advance environmental sustainability and social justice. Using a case study of an ecological … voluntary standards and certification. Specifically, efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control became key …
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Transgenic crops currently available foruse potentially provide environmental benefits, suchas reduction in insecticide use and substitution ofless toxic for more toxic herbicides. These benefitsare contingent on a host of factors, such as thepotential for development of resistant...
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system in this way, andwhy policy change is needed to create a fairerplaying field. The current policy, voluntarylabeling, is …
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